Why people are marching for science: ‘There is no Planet B’

The Washington Post ^ | 04/22/2017 | Joel Achenbach

[Trump20162020]

The March for Science materialized as a global event on six continents — and cheered on by scientists on a seventh, Antarctica. On the National mall, the crowd has been large, with thousands of people gathered on the grounds of the Washington Monument and lines for the security checkpoints stretching for more than two blocks.

Rain has varied from light to borderline apocalyptic, but that didn’t stop people from dancing when Thomas Dolby performed his 1982 blockbuster hit “She Blinded Me With Science.” The march proper is scheduled for 2 p.m., and will proceed down Constitution Avenue to the foot of Capitol Hill.

“We are at a critical juncture. Science is under attack,” said Cara Santa Maria, a science communicator who is one of several emcees of the four-hour rally that kicked off at 10 a.m. “The very idea of evidence and logic and reason is being threatened by individuals and interests with the power to do real harm.”

She went on: “We’re gathered here today to fight for science. [The crowd cheered.] We’re gathered to fight for education. [Cheer.] To fight for knowledge. [Cheer.] And to fight for Planet Earth.” [Cheer.]

[Morpheus2009]

With global depopulation on the future horizon, we are saved by the far left’side own terms. But hopefully we won’t have trouble with having to bury so many people.

[Ciaphas Cain]

Well, at least we've still got Planet X.

[Ciaphas Cain]

"Do you think man can destroy the planet?" Charlton Heston reading from Michael Crichton's JURASSIC PARK.

[2banana]

How dare you take away from my generous government grants for fake science!

[FatherofFive]

So now Marxism is “Science”

[freedumb2003]

She blinded me with SCIENCE!!!

This is a close to real science as 90% of these yahoos have ever gotten.

[ifinnegan]

March for science is scary because it’s not a March for science at all.

It’s a March for fascism it’s a march against science for conformity within a leftist secular paradigm that uses the veneer of science as a type of religious authority to maintain the orthodoxy.

[beethovenfan]

Marching for pseudo-science. They’re SAVING the ERF, don’tcha know!

[ifinnegan]

“We are at a critical juncture. Science is under attack,” said Cara Santa Maria, a science communicator”

There’s no such thing as a science communicator.

[txhurl]

These guys put Hydra in their sign.

[Trump20162020]

“We are at a critical juncture. Science is under attack,” said Cara Santa Maria

Later, Cara Santa Maria said to the cheers of the March for Science Leftists: "Men wearing dresses are real women! The Y chromosome is bigot."

[x]

[Ciaphas Cain]

It's worse than that! It's United Underworld!

[I want the USA back]

This is to create the fake narrative that Trump is anti-science.

[left that other site]

My personal favorite.

[Brilliant]

If they are worried about carbon then why are they opposed to nuclear power?

[samtheman]

So now Marxism is “Science”

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It was always that. It started out as “The Science of History”

[Trillian]

They're marching for communism. Silly hu-möns.

[RedWulf]

Fake news and fake science.